Tease Quotes - Page 6

• Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.

  John Keats

  Silent, Eternity, Form

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 5

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• No,” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.” “I’m still not kissing you,” Michael said. “Tease.

  Rachel Caine

  Kissing, Two, Leaving

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.125, Penguin

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• You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Nice, Thinking, Laughing

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.132, Penguin Group

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• When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

  Wendy Mass

  Bullying, Power, People

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• I can’t help blushing and looking down at my feet. “It was nothing.” “It was literally everything to me.” I look up, putting on my best version of Eight’s teasing smile. “In that case, I think I deserve more than a gross hot dog.” Eight clasps his hands across his chest like I’ve wounded him. “You’re right! I’m a fool to think my life could be traded for a hot dog.” He grabs my hand and gets down on one knee, pressing his forehead to the back of my hand. “My savior, what can I ever do to repay you?

  Pittacus Lore

  Dog, Thinking, Deserve More

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• If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Henry Miller (2012). “Plexus (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• Isn't is lovely to be all together again?" Raffin said, throwing one arm around Po and the other around Bann. -------- She wanted them near, even if they were subsumed by their own affairs, she needed them at sword practice in the morning, at dinner at night, moving and shifting around her, there and gone, back again, arguing, teasing, acting like people who knew who they were.

  Kristin Cashore

  Morning, Moving, Night

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• Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when I read Anthony Powell's matter-of-fact observation that teasing is an unfailing sign of misery within) and as is my very pronounced impatience. The struggle, therefore, is to try and cultivate the virtuous side of these shortcomings: to be a genial host while only slightly whiffled, for example, or to be witty at the expense of one's own weaknesses instead of those of other people.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Witty, Struggle, People

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.302, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said.

  John Green

  Mean, Sound, Comfort

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.169, Penguin

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• Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Dream, Girlfriend

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• I'm very active on Twitter and Instagram. I'm always posting pictures from set, and little clues and teasing people with fun things. It's awesome!

  Tyler Posey

  Fun, People, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20. In those days, that was considered a jogging time and I knew people were going to tease me. But I was more fascinated with what women could do if they only had the chance.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Athlete, Two, Race

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.

  John Ashbery

  Hurt, Thinking, Hair

  "John Ashbery, The Art of Poetry No. 33". Interview with Peter A. Stitt for The Paris Review, Issue 90, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1983.

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• One of the things I try to do is take seriously some of the forms of American religion that people consider to be shallow and try and figure out why they have such a strong appeal and tease out the theology they actually represent.

  Ross Douthat

  Strong, People, Trying

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• They were all wonderful [on Andy Griffith Show], but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie so well. He really took acting seriously and worked hard to deliver his lines well. Andy was always fun and liked to tease. Don was nothing like Barney. Don was very quiet, which shows what a good actor he was.

  Betty Lynn

  Fun, Acting, Actors

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• I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed to teaching and disseminating those around the world. I also believe that most transformational leaders are focusing too much on outer techniques and overlooking the important inner qualities of beingness and presence that are required to create real and lasting transformation in the world.

  Jack Canfield

  Real, Teaching, Believe

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• Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and innocent. It's not hardcore stripping so much as letting your body tell a story; the women are playing characters and unfolding a complete narrative onstage, with beginning, middle, and end.

  Karen Abbott

  Character, Practice, Style

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and say, "al-Maarri, but no one says your Koran." And he said, "Yes, but give me time. Give me time. If people recite it for twenty years it will become as popular as the other one."

  Tariq Ali

  Years, People, Giving

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• I'm the worst at teasing. I don't really know how much I can and can't say.

  Tracy Spiridakos

  Worst, Know How, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

  Alexander Pope

  Peace, Farewell, Sleep

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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• I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me. I said "I've had pho," and then he goes, "Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?" I was like, "Come on, man. You don't have to come at me like that." But yeah, I've tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.

  Adam Richman

  Men, Yield, Numbers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a bit of a tease. I'd make out with a lot of people but not go beyond that.

  Pete Wentz

  People, Make Out, Bits

  Source: www.elle.com

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• [Interminable monologues] became an issue only late in [Adolf] Hitler's life. He became repetitive after the war started going badly in Russia. He wasn't like this earlier on, he could be very funny in our small group, very relaxed, teasing and it was just a relaxed atmosphere.

  Gretl Braun

  War, Russia, Issues

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• There live a great man named Joe
  who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
  While his rival would taunt and tease
  Joe silently bore the stings.
  And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Rivals, Bores

  "The Soul of a Butterfly". Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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• We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

  Alain de Botton

  Numbness, Identity, World

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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